Fire in downtown Wolfratshausen: attic apartment is on fire - firefighter injured

Large-scale operation for the fire brigade: an attic apartment is on fire in downtown Wolfratshausen.

Four people can be saved.

• Thick billows of smoke wafted through Marktstrasse in Wolfratshausen on Wednesday afternoon.

• Flames broke out of the windows of an attic apartment.

• A firefighter was also injured during the extinguishing work.

Wolfratshausen

- It is Tuesday lunchtime, shortly after noon, dinner time.

High flames suddenly burst from the top floor of a residential and commercial building on

, diagonally across from the Müller drugstore.

Thick smoke penetrates the building.

At 12:06 p.m. the alarm call reaches the

.

70 soldiers from

,

,

and

, district fire chief Erich Zengerle district fire inspector North Robert Schmid, the local operations management support group as well as 20 emergency services and four police officers move out immediately.

The balance of the

that will drag on until the late afternoon: four homeless people, a slightly injured firefighter, a completely burned out home, and property damage of several 100,000 euros.

Fire in Wolfratshausen: A firefighter is injured during operation

At the

time of the fire, there were three people in

the

.

"We saved two of them from the windows using portable ladders," says Stefan Kieskalt, spokesman for the district fire brigades.

The third had been brought outside via the stairwell.

In the hallway, the comrades also come across an uninjured fourth person - apparently in the apartment below at home.

They bring her to safety too.

The

drives two of the residents of the upper apartment to the

and one to the

.

Ines Lobenstein takes care of the fourth person affected, an older man.

The

homeless representative

has her office in the immediate vicinity and is quickly on site.

According to Kieskalt

, a

suffers “minor burns”

during the first

, and he too is immediately driven to the district

.

Doctors there take care of his injuries.

The entire

is now closed.

The

is carried out simultaneously with several teams - both from the outside via the turntable ladder and from the inside.

"Thanks to the immediate, intensive

,

could be prevented from

to neighboring houses," Carolin Englert, spokeswoman for the Upper Bavaria South Police Headquarters in Rosenheim, will later write in her report.

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The fire fighters took a ladder to the fire in the attic apartment.

© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

At around 2 p.m., the

under control, but they are still a long way from calm.

"The extinguishing work is currently underway," reports Kieskalt at 2:46 pm.

"The roof will have to open to the whole

get hold." The fire department spokesman expects at this time with a further two hours of work.

Then a carpenter will close the roof again.

The

catches running

in the older man's apartment.

The fire in Wolfratshausen was probably not started intentionally

Kieskalt cannot provide any information

about the

the

.

That is "firstly too early and secondly the task of the police".

She gets to work immediately: The detective service of the

takes over the investigation of the

.

"Since the fire investigators from the criminal police can enter the scene of the fire at the earliest in the course of tomorrow, no statements can be made at the moment," says police spokeswoman Englert.

However,

there have been no

indications of an

.

According to Englert, the amount of damage is likely to be in the mid six-digit range according to an initial assessment.

The solidarity among the

is great

.

Ines Lobenstein grabs the older man, who is standing in the cold in the cold in slippers, to buy him a pair of warm shoes in Georg Meiller's shop.

She wants to finance this with donations.

Meiller, however, does not accept any money. “This is my donation,” he says.

On the mediation of

, Lobenstein can then accommodate the man in a hotel room in the Humplbräu.

“Ms. Fagner was immediately helpful,” she says happily.

She also reached out to the 74-year-old's daughter, "she will now take care of her dad".

Lobenstein also wants to find a place to stay

for the three burned-out people who are currently still being

cared

for in the

.

When rescuers need help themselves: The DLRG Geretsried currently hardly receives any donations.